Drone Program Faces Scrutiny Before Brennan Hearing

By

Siobhan Gorman And

Evan Perez

Updated Feb. 6, 2013 11:18 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's decision to nominate his counterterrorism chief to run the Central Intelligence Agency has opened the administration's controversial drone program to new questions and disclosures, including the location of a CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia and confidential documents outlining the administration's justification for killing American terrorist suspects.

The CIA had a longstanding request to several media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, not to name the location of the...